When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds. - Diane Ravitch
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
- Diane Ravitch
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by socie… - Diane Ravitch
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by socie…
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a bu… - Diane Ravitch
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a bu…
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time. - Diane Ravitch
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves? - Diane Ravitch
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions - Diane Ravitch
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations. - Diane Ravitch
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, a… - Diane Ravitch
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, a…
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a … - Diane Ravitch
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a …
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